[Forward-dated: Monday afternoon] [Tower Boss #2]

[allurprincess]

Characters: Anyone facing the Firebird.
Format: Whatever you like!
This log is: open
Location: Conquest campus, starting from the tower plaza and spreading outwards.
Summary: As the Conquest Tower opens, the island enters its second boss battle. Read this if you're confused.
Warnings: Fire.

[ This battle is nowhere near as surprising as the arena wyrm's attack, but there's something fundamentally terrifying about globs of fire raining down on you from the sky that that last one didn't have. Whilst the buildings, with their sudden blue sheen, seem immune to the flames, the Players and Weapons outside of them are a tad more exposed.

The firebird is content to make regular, swooping passes at the fighters, which whilst dangerous due to its talons, puts it within range of the melee weapons. It isn't very fast, and is forced to avoid the roofs of the campus in its attacks. Its fire is only dangerous when it's directly overhead. ]

Comments

[allurprincess]

[ Sora, as a melee fighter, is waiting in its path to slash at its legs on its attacks.

This is both brave and really stupid so someone should probably give her tactical advice ]

[greenspaces]

[ Soraaaaaaaaa what are you doing?! ]

Sora, you'll get hurt!

[allurprincess]

But I can't reach it otherwise!

[stoppedhiding]

[ Having no idea what to do with them, Golbez has given Suzaku his own slash harkens to use and is wielding only Lelouch's sword. As before, he's given his own Lightning Rod ring to Lelouch to wear. The flames are too widespread for him to draw them completely, but it's at least better than nothing.

Whenever the beast dips close enough, he's on it like white on rice.

Also available for last-minute vows from Conquest discards :x ]

[swordofzero]

[Suzaku had taken the form change ring off, slash harkens were more usful than spears when fighting this creature. He followed Golbez flinging the hook shots upwards towards the Phoenix.]

after his death

[swordofzero]

Suzaku woke up in his bed, his things at the bottom of his bed. He didn't pause for a moment before dressing and rushing back to the battle, pushing the fact that he had just died out of his mind because there was a monster attacking and Lelouch was injured.

After checking that Lelouch was out of harms way he tracked down Golbez, who would have lost Lelouch's sword when Lelouch fell... "Here we can use one hook shot each, better than nothing."

[stoppedhiding]

When Lelouch collapsed, Golbez noticed instantly thanks to his weapon vanishing. He made sure to get him to safety off of the battlefield, just in time to see Suzaku returning to the fray.

Immediately, he reached out to draw Suzaku's weapon again. "I haven't the slightest clue how these work," he explained.

[sobsprite]

[She planned on staying away, but something drew her to the battle anyway. She was no good at fighting, but yet here she was. Oh well. For some reason she felt like she should find Jade.]

[greenspaces]

[ Here is Jade! She has a few minor burns on her arms but is looking pretty okay anyway. In her hands she's holding both of her Quills, busy shooting what look like lightning bolts at the giant Firebird. ]

[sobsprite]

Jade! Are you okay? [Oops trying to stay out of the way!]

[frozenmemories]

[Cirno just decided to charge straight into battle, not even worrying that she had not been vowed yet. She wanted to fight and make sure others didn't get hurt, not worrying about her own safety at all. She was flying in the air, throwing rocks at the beast as it swooped down.]

Come an' get some ya pain in the butt!

[ecthelion]

[As much as throwing rocks has been effective for Ein, this does not appear to be a time when it will be anything even approaching useful.]

[Lakshmi drawn, and, as before, his Exaclan glove worn over his regular glove, covers himself with ice shots as he makes his way over to her. Seeing as she is flying, he yells. He also can't see the lack of "owned Weapon" mark on her hand.]

I don't think that's going to work too well! Do you need your weapon or are you a Player without one?!

[frozenmemories]

Eh?

[Cirno, after throwing another few rocks, looks over to him and shakes her head no. Nope, She ran out here without thinking.]

I dun have a player yet so I figured try with what I can do!

[She quickly flew down to him with a grin on her face that could be called careless and over confident.]

Player or no Player, Weapon or no Weapon, I wanna help!

[ecthelion]

[Ein appears to have gotten lucky, as his (at this point) sole weapon has ranged water attacks. He'll stay on the ground, dodging or almost dodging the rain of fire as necessary.

He'd battled a phoenix before (and then later its Dark Progenitor counterpart), as well. This didn't look like it would get too much harder for him.

But if any Conquest discard recognizes or doesn't recognize him, he'll vow with them.]

[leadscrows]

[ Aly isn't too keen on battles. She's been in them before, but there's no place like a battle to discombobulate a spy, and so she's tending to the outskirts, her own Weapon in hand.

Well, at least she has a good Weapon. May as well learn how to use it. ]

How are you shooting water out of that thing? [ Inquiring minds want to know. ]

[ecthelion]

It's got Elemental Shot and Water upgrades.

It can also shoot fire or, in my case, light, but those wouldn't work as well here.

[whitestknight]

[ using his own sword is something Flynn hadn't realise he'd missed until the previous round, but now it's almost familiar again. Since there are enough fighters, he's equipped Elemental Shot and is now concentrating on diverting it from the dorms with blasts of light.

Diverting it from the dorms, and from the people leaving them to join the fight, that is. ]

Look out!

[unflinchable]

[Arthur knew that Flynn would be better off using his own weapon than one he wasn't familiar with, it was an easy decision to hand it off, just as it had been easy to give Yuri his own weapon. But that had left Arthur weaponless until he quickly vowed with Gino and found himself with a halberd.]

How do we defeat such a creature?

[This is when he usually depends on Gaius to come out and go this creature is an X and you defeat it with Y.]

[whitestknight]

[ he considers the question. ] Water magic would be best, but neither I nor Yuri has that element, and yours-- [ wait, he recognises the weapon Arthur's carrying. ]

That's Tristan. Are you Gino's Player? You should be able to fly, if so.

[knightime]

Welp. Watching Sora being launched at a giant flaming bird and the two Jades going off in what is probably just as bad of an idea...

Seems like everything is going according to plan.

He had Britannia's sword in his hand. It was better to have upgrades and he was more comfortable with a sword. But this was all kind of useless unless he can get closer. Not sure if being launched was the right answer though.

[greenspaces]

[ WAVING ]

[ I'M ON A BIRD ]

[savedbyasong]

[Shion stared with fear at the fire bird, like the other monster he had never seen anything like it in his whole life. He held Becca's sword at his side not sure how good a sword of fire would do against a fire creature...

He glanced at Alex] Ready?

[afraid_of_my_shadow]

[Alex swallows, steeling himself for the battle. He nods to Shion.] yeah, as r-ready as I'll get. Just remember, if you g-get too hurt, pull back and Regen'll heal ya.

Open to anyone!

[veepofchess]

[So Lelouch is barking orders from the ground for those that would listen, conducting this battle as he would any other, only he's actually using names. He's also had to move aside as quickly as he could a few times to keep from being incinerated.

But suddenly he stops mid sentence. His eyes glaze over. And he collapses to the ground. And oh dear. There's a fireball headed his way. Someone ought to do something before he gets roasted.]

well its a boss battle someone had to die....

[swordofzero]

[Suzaku saw him fall from where he was fighting the fire bird, using his slash harkens. He moved quickly diving across the battlefield to push Lelouch's body out of the way of the fireball.

Unfortunately in these situations it is usually Suzaku's Geass that gets himself out of the way, without it and without any memory of it he gets hit in the back with the fireball meant for Lelouch.

He screamed in agony and fell, it was a few moments of screaming before the slash harkens; dropped as Suzaku ran to Lelouch disappeared.]